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S.M. Mack is a Clarion 2012 grad and holds an MFA in popular fiction from USM Stonecoast as well as first place for the 2017 Katherine Patterson Prize for Young Adult Writing. Her prize-winning story, “The Carrying Beam,” was published in the VCFA’s Journal for the Arts, Hunger Mountain. Other stories have been published in Fireside Fiction and Vine Leaves Literary Journal’s “Best of 2015” anthology, as well as the Clarion class of 2012’s seven Rainbow Anthologies. She lives in southern California and can be found on Bsky at @whatsmacksaid.bsky.social and Instagram at @what_smacksaid.

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Green flags abound! And the FMC is gray ace. <3
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Chuck Palahniuk
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
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Robin McKinley
“Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't — some people do lead enchanted lives — but odds are that it will. Some time.”
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“So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in town--the super expensive ones, the ones that smell like roses rather than merely looking like them--and put them all over my apartment. Take a good long look at everyone I love.”
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Paulo Coelho
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”
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“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
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